- How to buy a car (if you must) - Mr. Money Mustache
If you don't need seating for five or six, disregard all minivans and large SUVs If you don't need to tow a trailer or haul hundreds of pounds of materials objects, disregard all trucks If you don't need 4 wheel drive, leather interior, a V6 or V8 engine, large vehicle size, etc disregard all those
- Minivans SUVs with excellent rear air conditioning? - Mr. Money Mustache
Minivans SUVs with excellent rear air conditioning?Our 2013 Dodge Grande Caravan gets plenty cold in the way back There are several vents for each row than can swivel around to just about any position And when the kids are older, they can control the setting themselves if you switch the controls up front to a "rear control" setting, if that makes sense And I live in Texas Logged
- How do you justify an SUV?
Compact SUVs from the past couple years can get MPGs into the 30s, and in many other respects (weight, price, etc) are also comparable to mid-size sedans Now, how anyone sane justifies an Escalade, I still do not know (they scare me, honestly) Maybe someone can enlighten But a CRV or a Rav4 or a Subaru?
- Best fuel efficient used SUVs? - Mr. Money Mustache
Best fuel efficient used SUVs?I just did a quick search on fueleconomy gov (which regrettably doesn't have filtering by number of seats) and came up with the 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe GMC Yukon hybrid as being the most fuel efficient 7+ (it seats 8) seat vehicle with an EPA rating of 21 22 mpg city hwy I only looked at the SUV and minivan categories for model years 2006-2008 Unfortunately they
- So is the SUV craze largely an American way of waste?
So is the SUV craze largely an American way of waste?SUV use (mis-use?) is also wide-spread here in Australia, with a large number of people using SUVs to move one person around urban areas Usually accompanied with the excuse that "Australia is a large country, with lots of dirt roads), despite the fact that most of the trucks never see them For the record I'm yet to encounter many that I
- Help with calculating car crash statistics - Mr. Money Mustache
In Institute studies, ESC has been found to reduce fatal single-vehicle crash risk by 49 percent and fatal multiple-vehicle crash risk by 20 percent for cars and SUVs Many single-vehicle crashes involve rolling over, and ESC effectiveness in preventing rollovers is even more dramatic
- Author Topic: Best car hatchback SUV to sleep in during a long-term . . .
I've been planning on doing some mods to a hatchback, station wagon or SUV-type car in order to give it a nice sleeping platform with some space underneath in preparation for a long term road trip
- Suggestions wanted: Cars for short people
I have found that the smaller SUVs have worked well for being able to see and seat comfort My list of short people approved cars suvs Kia Soul, Ford Edge, , Mazda 3, Subaru Outback, Honda CRV Honda Element, Honda Odyssey My favorite was the Honda Element I could see everything, the seat adjusted perfectly, very few blind spots
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